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The Hindu Succession Act of 2005 protects the property rights of Hindu daughters.

Even though their father died before the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005 took effect, the Supreme Court held that daughters have coparcenary rights to their father's property.

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Daughters had a claim to their parents' property prior to the implementation of the Hindu Succession Act of 1956: SC Daughters are entitled to inherit both their parents' self-acquired property and any other property that they own outright. When determining in a case affecting women's property rights, the Supreme Court stated that this rule would apply even if a daughter's parents died intestate before the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 was enacted. If a male Hindu dies intestate (without a will), his property passes through inheritance rather than survivorship, and hence his daughter would be eligible to receive the property ahead of other collaterals (such as children of the deceased father's siblings). The Supreme Court wrote in a 51-page decision that "because the property in question was admittedly the self-acquired property of a fathesr despite the family being in a state of jointness upon his death intestate.


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